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The club have now been forced to postpone their first two matches back against Hannover and Greuther Furth, but German football chief Christian Seifert says that for now those are the only two matches affected, and that the top two divisions will resume next weekend as planned.

“It is precisely the idea that corona cases will be forwarded to the health department and they will then talk about the appropriate measures, and we have already said that we have to prepare for this.

“I have not spoken to any responsible person. It’s 14 days in quarantine and then we’ll have to see how we’re going to run the Dynamo Dresden games next week."

Seifert added that the cases weren't a surprise to him.

"The medical experts followed the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute,” he said.

“And the sports ministers also advocated that quarantine should be announced in the event of positive cases. We always said: this is decided by the local health authorities.

“At the moment I wish it could have gone differently, of course, but it was clear that this could happen. For the second division it means that two games will be cancelled at the moment, but we are not changing the goal, the only plan is still to finish the season.

“It does not yet mean that the 2. Bundesliga cannot continue, because only two games have been affected so far, but it is clear that, if it happens enough, it would no longer be possible to end the season.”